Storage-battery truck.



B. M. SMITH.

STORAGE BATTERY TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 21, 1911. 1,067,625, Patented July 15, 1913.

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specification of Letters Patent.

OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

STORAGE-BATTERY TRUCK.

Patented July 15, 1913.

Application filed November 2i. 1911. Serial No. 661,598.

a .citizen of the United States. and a resident of Cleveland. in the county of (hiyahoga and State of Ohio. have invented acertain new and useful Storage-lmttery In use the toot 4c is adjusted to the proper Truck. of which the following is a speciti- 5 cation.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide an appliance by means of which few, even two, men can lift a storage battery tank to or from its insnlating supports and, if necessary, more it about from place to place.

The invention will he claimed at the end hereof. but will be first described. in connection with the embialiinent of it chosen for illustration in the ami'onipanying drawings, in nhich-- Figure l, is a side. View illuitrating a pair of devices embodying the invention, in no plication to a storage battery tank. Fig. 3. is a rear View of one of the devices drawn to a slum-what enlarged scale. Fig. 3. is a sectional view taken on the line S i of Fig. 2. and Fig. l, is a side View of one. of the lifting feet.

In the drawings 1, is a standard mounted upon casters or wheels 2. Tim standard is prov ded ,with a titling Stlai I which l;. rei'olnn jv mounted in it. 'i'lze sr'rt-w an gages a thread opening in a lifting toot t. slidahly mounted in ways f formed in the standard.

6, is a crank shaft applied to the standard and provided with a hand-crank T. lntt-r pmcd twine-en the shaft. 3 and screw 3 tllL hovel gar-s I f). are arr. the Standard in the same dire ti n thal the foot. pro} 'ts.

which project- 'tronI tilttop of revolves the screw 3 for permitting the foot to be ins rted under the tank 10. lVhen two of the devices have been adjusted in this way to opposite ends of the tank, the latter can be lifted from its insulators 11 by turning the cranks 7 and thus raising the feet. The arms 9 being at the opposite sides of the tank serve to guide the tank in respect to the standards. When the tank has thus been raised, it can be easily moved by pushing the standards which run on the rollers or casters 2. Similarly the tank can be mount ed on the feet, wheeled to place over the supporters and then lowered onto the supporters. Some storage battery tanks are heavy and would require a number of men to transport them and place them on or take them off their supporters, but by means of the described appliances two men'can easily do the work that formerly required a number of men.

That I claim 1s:

A device for raising, lowering and transporting storage battery tanks which coinpr-ises the combination of astandard provided with ways and with parallel laterally extending arms and mounted on casters, a

lifting screw carried by the standard, a foot I movable in the ways and engaged by the B. M. SMITH. 

